decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating
big dreams and bigger laughs
Chiang's rigorously imagined fantasia invites us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it
Saudi ArabiaPhilipp Casula
an emotionally rewarding novel so succulent with detail that you can almost feel the Tripoli sand storms whipping across your face' Daily Mail The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast
Margo Veillon: Witness of a Century Death is hard work decades of pain and betrayalBruno RonfardMargo Veillon, one of Egypts best known and best loved artists, was born in Cairo in 1907 to a Swiss father and an Austrian mother and died in the same city in 2003. For most of her 96 years she painted and drew Egypt, from north to south, from countryside to city, as well as Paris, London, and other parts of the world. As a witness to a century of enormous change in Egypt as much as elsewhere, she produced a huge, rich, and varied body